5 Year Mark

In five years I will be a Child and Youth Worker graduate from Loyalist College. I hope to have at least two years working in the field of CYW.  I hope to work in a shelter or group home, helping troubled teens or foster children. I inspire to help them succeed and better themselves as people. Being a CYW will allow me to have an emotionally satisfying career. A career where I can be happy and enjoy what I am doing. A career where I receive personal gratification. In five years my boyfriend will be out of the military and we will move to British Columbia together. Have an apartment and start our lives together. My goal will be having a career as a CYW in British Columbia. Being a CYW will give me the lifestyle that I want. Seven days a week, shift work, nights, days, you name it. As long as I am influencing someone’s life for the better I couldn’t be happier. In five years, I will be 24 years old. I might possibly be engaged (hopefully). I hope that in that five years, I have changed or helped a teen in some way. Either helped them turn their life around, or helped them understand a little bit about themselves. Because a CYW will be time consuming and emotionally draining, my boyfriend (future finance) will hold off starting a family till a few years after we both get settled into our careers. I will be making an average wage being a new CYW, but hope to receive a promotion down the road with hard work and consistency. My goal is to have a lot more knowledge about the CYW field and a lot of hands on work. I hope to make a lot of new friends and meet a lot of inspiring children. Lastly, in five years I hope to be happy. Be happy with my life and the decisions that have gotten me there. 

                                                          British Columbia 

Career Poster Reflection:

I really like the outcome of my poster. I think the colours look great with each other and compliment the overall piece. I like how the piece makes your eye move all around it. There are different textures which make it look interesting. I like how it all came together and shows my chosen career. I really like the background and how there are little details and colour involved. I do like how the light at the bottom looks like its shining light on my face.

I don’t particularly like how the light at the bottom at the page is sitting there. It looks out of place and doesn’t look like it meshes together with the rest of the page. I would have changed some of the images and made them more complex and blended them in more with the background. I would have also found more images that had to do with my career.

This poster reflects my chosen career which is photography. There are images of photo lens, photos, cameras and photography film. There are special effects on certain pictures such as on the one of me that is in black and white and I made the mit the only thing in colour. These are effects that would be taken place on photos for professional photography. This poster shows some of just the many effects you can accomplish on photos that you would have to do if you were a professional photographer. Photoshop is a tool that photographers use to touch up or fix their photos, adding little details and touches.

Career Poster

Portfolio Reflection

I really like how my portfolio turned out. I like how I carried out my theme throughout the whole summative. I really like the Photoshop in my summative, I think that the images came out crisp and clean, giving a very professional look to my summative. I really like the images and how they mesh together, even though they came from different sources.

Some of the buttons I don’t particularly care for because they are too simple. I would have changed them and made them more complicated and interesting. Instead of just using the pictures as backgrounds, I would have made things change and move to create a button. My about me page I would have made it more complex but not make it busy. I would have added more images of different kinds of fish or whales on my pages to make it look like an ocean.

This represents a professional portfolio because it runs very smoothly and is crisp and clean. The overall piece works well and flows into each other with ease. All the buttons work and every page does what it is suppose to do. This is like a professional portfolio because it creates interests for the reader when images move around and makes you want to look more.

Brainstorm for Portfolio Ideas

1. An idea that I was thinking about was to have my portfolio in the forest. And then have animals, insects and plants moving constantly as well as when you put your mouse over a certain area, it would change. Id have different perspectives when you would push on a button, either a tree, animal, plant, ground or insect. It would be a up close image and I would have to make it change somehow away from the original picture. I would have nature sounds, such as birds singing, moneky making noise, animals running etc.

2. I would do a portfolio in a meadow. Having butterflies and bugs flying throughout the page as well as the sound of birds singing. I would have certain areas move throughout the page> when you put your mouse over certain areas of the picture or certain objects, they would either move or transform into something else. This would be a realistic portfolio and it would all have to make sense. I would put a lot of detail into the images and make them crisp and clean looking.

3. Another idea would be to have the portfolio take place in the bottom of the ocean. I love the water and marine animals so this would be a great way to show off my art. I could make different animals swim by throughout the page. Have bubbles make words when your mouse goes over them. Have a lot of colors from coral as well as marine animals. I could have a fish eat another fish when your mouse goes over it. There could be whales noise, bubbles and splashing sounds throughout the portfolio. When you push on a button, it would take you to a different part of the ocean with a new setting and new animals in that environment.

4.An idea would be that I would do a portfolio based on creativity and design. It would be very creative and would have a lot of details put into it. I would use photos that would not normally go together and make a picture with them. When you would go over certain images they would change or something would happen to them. This portfolio would have a lot of designs that would flow into each other making a very interesting look. There would be sounds that would not normally go together. When you put your mouse over a certain object, it would change or do something art-like and creative. This portfolio would just a combination of interesting designs and pictures put together to make an overall effect. It would have a lot of details and little things when you really look at it.

5. This would be mainly taken place on the beach. There would be palm trees and crabs and sand castles and pretty much anything you thought of when you think of a beach. There would be the sound of the waves hitting as well as wind blowing. Little things would happen when you go over certain objects as well as moving throughout the portfolio.

Discuss Portfolio Assignment

Two portfolios that I like:
http://www.bebopjeans.com/ I really like this portfolio because its very interesting and is very detailed and clean looking. I like how if you really look at it, you see little pictures on pictures and how they are completely different but some how mesh together and give a really cool affect. I love the colors used. They work really well together and give a very flow-happy feel to the overall portfolio. I like how crisp and clean looking the photos are as well as when you put the mouse over a photo it moves and everything is so detailed and polished looking. I like the little details and how when you go over a word something interesting happens to it before it takes you to that certain page. I just like the overall look and how it is all made of doodles and loosely designs.

http://www.tbwahakuhodo.co.jp/ I like this portfolio because it has a lot of unique ideas and methods of moving things around. I like how when you go over certain objects, they change some how or manipulate into something else. I like the details that were put into this and how polished and clean finished it is. I also like the unique settings taken place when you move to another page.

These two portfolio’s both have a lot of details put into them. They also have a lot of different pictures that wouldn’t normally go together, but they work together. They have a very polished and finished look to them which make them very professional.

The inspirations that these two portfolio’s give me are, putting a lot of detail and time into my pictures and how they interact with other photos, making a very clean, polished look. When its finished, having a lot of pictures that don’t normally go together and making them look like they are suppose to be there.

Reflection for World Flag

I like my flag a lot. I am very happy with the outcome of it. I really like the colors presented in it because they are very earthy and brighten up the overall look. I like the lines in it and how they make a nit like look and overlap each other. I like the idea of the hands in a circle around the world and how it is in the middle of the flag showing that is the focal point of the flag. I also like the different sizes of the strips and that they aren’t all the same size, it creates interest.

One thing that I do not particularly care for is how the hands turned out. They look flat but not as flat as I wanted them to be. If I lowed the layers of color it would have looked more flat, but then they didn’t look like hands because there wasn’t enough color and tone to show the different shapes in the hands and arms.

I think my flag is a great representation of World Unity because it shows the world as one and has hands surrounding it showing that many people hold the world together. It has many colors showing the many different people in this world. The colors also show the different seasons that occur which I find interesting. The nit like look shows that we are all connected. I like the idea that the flag is not overly complicated and would be easily drawn by a child who had to do it for a project and re-create it. It is easily recognized because of the colors and shapes it creates and is very different from other world flags.